Nokia details Lumia 900 plans

The good news is, Nokia’s Lumia 900 smartphone will be available in Australia in June. The bad news is, it will be exclusive to Optus at the time of launch. The good news is, you’ll also be able to buy it outright from major retailers, for $699.

The neither-good-nor-bad new is, the Lumia 610 will also be coming in June. It will be exclusive to Boost at that time, and then also available on Vodafone from July. You’ll also be able to buy the Lumia 610 in shops from July, for $329. But I only mention that second phone for completeness, because, really, who will give a rats about the Lumia 610 when the Lumia 900, one of the most gorgeous phones ever made, will be here, in the country, at the same time? Not me.

And I only say that the Lumia 900 is one of the most gorgeous smart phones ever made because that’s a verified fact. It’s physically impossible for humans to behold its unibody polycarbonate shell, and not think “Gosh, I would like to get my hands on that!". Looking at its 4.3" AMOLED display and not thinking “Oh my goodness", just can’t be done.

The Lumia 900 has an 8 megapixel camera, a dual-carrier mobile broadband connection (the sort that Apple fans will tell you is as good as LTE, even though it’s not quite), and 16 GB of storage that you can’t expand because the phone runs Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5, and Windows Phone 7.5 doesn’t allow for external memory cards.

It also has 512 megabytes of RAM, and 1.4 GHz processor that has not four, not two but just the one processing core. I didn’t say it was technically the most advanced smartphone ever. I just said it was the most gorgeous smartphone ever.

And I hear the camera is very good, though that’s something we’re yet to test here in the Labs. Like everyone else, we’ll be counting the days till June.